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Special lecture for International women's Day with Dr Louise Raw
When the Bryant and May Matchwomen went on strike in 1888, it caused outrage. A ‘respectable’ woman’s place was in the home, not the picket line! Bad enough these ‘rough girls’ were working outside the domestic sphere, without them also rebelling against their ‘gentlemen’ employers.
Their walk-out stirred fears of revolution- the mob as at the gates, in the form of 1400 women and girls in threatening hats (Too bright! Too many feathers!), parading the streets of Bow singing rude songs about their bosses.
Behind the opprobrium directed at them and ‘factory lasses’ in general, lay a disturbed, and disturbing conceptualisation, and fear, of female sexuality.
This would lead to a horrific ‘trade’ in virginity, bizarre anti-sex aids - and, eventually and unintentionally, to the birth of the Hollywood ‘vamp’…
4 фев 2024
